To 1,500 pounds Wheat Bran, at 90c. $13.50 ” 200 pounds Corn Meal, at 70c. 1.40 ” 800 pounds Cotton-seed Meal, at $1 8.00 ” 300 pounds Hay, at 75c. 2.25 ------ Total $25.15 _Cr._ By sale of 2,200 pounds of Corn-fodder, at 60c. $13.20 ” 2,100 pounds of Oats, at 75c. 15.75 ------ $28.95 Profit $ 3.80 But the profit above shown does not express the real profit. A year’s continuous supply of rich milk in abundance, for a large household, cream for special occasions, and that best of luxuries, delicious home-made butter, and one hundred dollars for the little heifer when six months old, aggregate the chief results of the experiment. For the best results in soiling, no crop compares, as far as my experience goes, with our Southern variety of Indian corn; on rich land it produces marvellously. I have raised it at the rate of one hundred thousand pounds (or fifty tons) per acre. There is no difficulty in producing three crops in one season on the same land. But cattle need a variety of food in soiling, as in other forms of feeding. Oats are excellent, and come in early. Cat-tail Millet (“Pearl Millet”) is a rapid grower, but cattle are not specially fond of it; they like German Millet better. Garden (or English) Peas make an excellent food, coming into use in March, and lasting to June. I remember one year I produced five crops for soiling, on the same land, in one year, namely: oats, three of corn, and one of cow-peas. The last named is a superb food late in the year, after corn has gone. I have never experimented with roots, nor am I aware of any being cultivated in the South as a soiling crop. Cabbages set out in September and October will be ready for feeding in December, and will, next to corn, produce the largest weight of green food. One year I fed them to a considerable extent, and found my cows were very partial to them. By beginning with cabbages in December, to be succeeded by oats in March, then peas, corn, and millet, to wind up in November with cow-pea, a cow in our climate can be soiled every day in the year. [Illustration] [Illustration: Fig. 3.—THE JERSEY COW “ROSALEE.”] THE VILLAGE COW IN NEW ENGLAND. BEING THE JOURNAL OF THE KEEPER. BY HENRY E. ALVORD, EASTHAMPTON, MASS.